ABOUT THIS BOOKIn his latest book, Bainbridge combines an otherworldly journey through the central nervous system with an accessible and entertaining account of how the brain's anatomy has often misled anatomists about its function. Bainbridge uses the structure of the brain to set his book apart from the many volumes that focus on brain function.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Contents
Prologue
I. A Grand Tour of Terra Incognita
The spinal cord
1 Skull Marrow
First thoughts about the mind
2 Servants and Guards of the Great King
The classical brain
3 The Brain as Geography
Maps of the mind
4 A River Runs Through It
The development of a brain
5 Leonardo's Butterfly
The spinal cord
6 Interlude
The worm that turned (over)
II. An Assault on the Senses
The brain stem
7 A Forest So Dense
The new anatomy of Santiago Ramon y Cajal
8 The Little Fish Who Never Grew Up
The origins of the ear
9 The Brain as Archaeology
The hindbrain
10 Beauty Is in the Eye of the, er, Squid
The origins of the eye
11 Hillocks, Buttocks, Blindsight, and Black Stuff
The midbrain
12 Stinkin' and Thinkin'
The origins of the nose
13 Into the Marriage Chamber for Some Sexy Synesthesia
Entering the forebrain
14 Why Is "D" Brown?
When the senses mix
15 Interlude
Shrapnel and magnets
III. Where All the Mind May Be Found?
The cortex
16 The Brain as Engineering
Wilder Penfield and the cortex
17 The Apparent Disorder of the Cerebral Jungle
What is in those hemispheres?
18 The Seahorse and the Almond
Memory, learning, and fear
19 The Hard Question
Brain size and consciousness
Epilogue: No Turning Back
Further Reading
Index

In his latest book, Bainbridge combines an otherworldly journey through the central nervous system with an accessible and entertaining account of how the brain's anatomy has often misled anatomists about its function. Bainbridge uses the structure of the brain to set his book apart from the many volumes that focus on brain function.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Contents
Prologue
I. A Grand Tour of Terra Incognita
The spinal cord
1 Skull Marrow
First thoughts about the mind
2 Servants and Guards of the Great King
The classical brain
3 The Brain as Geography
Maps of the mind
4 A River Runs Through It
The development of a brain
5 Leonardo's Butterfly
The spinal cord
6 Interlude
The worm that turned (over)
II. An Assault on the Senses
The brain stem
7 A Forest So Dense
The new anatomy of Santiago Ramon y Cajal
8 The Little Fish Who Never Grew Up
The origins of the ear
9 The Brain as Archaeology
The hindbrain
10 Beauty Is in the Eye of the, er, Squid
The origins of the eye
11 Hillocks, Buttocks, Blindsight, and Black Stuff
The midbrain
12 Stinkin' and Thinkin'
The origins of the nose
13 Into the Marriage Chamber for Some Sexy Synesthesia
Entering the forebrain
14 Why Is "D" Brown?
When the senses mix
15 Interlude
Shrapnel and magnets
III. Where All the Mind May Be Found?
The cortex
16 The Brain as Engineering
Wilder Penfield and the cortex
17 The Apparent Disorder of the Cerebral Jungle
What is in those hemispheres?
18 The Seahorse and the Almond
Memory, learning, and fear
19 The Hard Question
Brain size and consciousness
Epilogue: No Turning Back
Further Reading
Index